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st: RE: matched data


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: matched data
Date   Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:26:57 +0100

Theodoropoulos, N.

> I have a matched employer-employee dataset. Each firm is 
> recognised by a unique identifier, and in each firm I have up to 
> 25 employees. From the existing data I want to generate some new 
> variables which capture only firms that employ a positive 
> proportion of old and/or young workers. In other words I want to 
> generate variables by selecting only the firms with some sampled 
> old and/or young employees.
> Also, I have the variables that capture the proportion of old and 
> young workers. 
> Is there a quick way of doing this instead of going through the 
> firms one by one.

Check out e.g. -egen, any()- 

and/or 

http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/anyall.html

Nick 
[email protected] 
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